Deals
this '$500 off' gaming PC deal has a number nobody's pointing out
The GPU alone costs $805 right now. the whole prebuilt PC is $1,600. let's actually do the math on whether that's a deal.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 26 · 7 min
gpu prices
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Deals
someone found an RTX 5080 for $702 at Walmart this week. here's why you probably won't
Viral clearance-cage GPU finds are real — but chasing them on purpose is a bad plan, and the GDDR7 shortage explains why everyone's suddenly hunting.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 25 · 6 min
Hardware
buying a whole RTX 5090 gaming PC is now cheaper than buying just the graphics card
somewhere between the memory shortage and the markup, Nvidia's flagship broke pricing so badly that skipping the DIY build is the actual smart move
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 22 · 7 min
Deals
AMD's $629 card just quietly beat Nvidia's $900 one on paper — and on VRAM
The plain, non-XT Radeon RX 9070 just hit its lowest price yet on Amazon, and the math against a shortage-priced RTX 5070 honestly isn't close.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 19 · 6 min
Hardware
Nvidia's cheaper GPU just got more expensive than the one above it. no, that's not a typo
The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB launched $120 under the RTX 5070 to win on value. This week, several retailers have that flipped completely.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 19 · 7 min
Hardware
Nvidia's mid-range GPU just got 88% more expensive. AMD's barely moved
The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is $805 now. The RX 9060 XT 16GB is still under $430. Here's whether Nvidia's edge is still worth the gap.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 18 · 6 min
Hardware
nvidia's cheapest RTX 50 card just dodged the price hike wrecking everyone else
the 16GB version is up 88% since launch. the 8GB version barely moved. here's the real math if you're buying for local AI, not just gaming.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 16 · 7 min
Hardware
the RTX 5070 just hit $900. I ran the local-AI math and almost couldn't recommend it
Nvidia's mid-range GPU is up 36% in two months — here's whether it still makes sense for running models at home, or if $900 changes the answer entirely.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 15 · 6 min
Deals
I priced a DIY local-AI PC against 3 prebuilt AI boxes — the GPU price spike changed the winner
Building around a single GPU used to be the obvious move. With cards jumping 39% in two months, the math on prebuilt AI appliances just got a lot more interesting.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 14 · 8 min
AI
GPU prices just jumped up to 39% in two months — here's what's actually worth buying for local AI now
The RTX 5060 Ti got hit hardest, the RTX 5080 barely moved, and that flipped the value math. Here's what actually makes sense, card by card, in August 2026.
Lena Fischer · Aug 14 · 9 min
Hardware
Nvidia's flagship AI GPU just hit $16,000. I ran the actual math on whether it's worth it
The RTX PRO 6000 nearly doubled in eight months. Here's what your money actually buys against every real alternative for running big models at home.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 14 · 8 min
Hardware
AI stocks just crashed 40-60% — nobody told the people actually renting GPUs
Nvidia's trading at its cheapest valuation in a decade. Meanwhile the price of renting a GPU by the hour nearly doubled. Both are true at once.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 13 · 7 min
Hardware
your next GPU is about to cost 30% more — and it has nothing to do with Nvidia
MSI just told investors gaming hardware prices are rising 15 to 30% this year, and the actual culprit is a DRAM shortage AI datacenters are causing, not GPU chips themselves.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 13 · 6 min
Deals
Nvidia sold GPUs at MSRP for one weekend. everywhere else, prices just jumped 39%
For four days in Texas you could buy an RTX 5090 at launch price. This week, Newegg's median RTX 5070 costs $240 more than it did in June.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 11 · 6 min
Deals
AMD's RX 9070 GRE just dropped to $499 — while every other GPU gets more expensive
While DRAM shortages push RTX 5070 prices up 36% and RTX 5060 up 27% at the median, AMD's 12GB Navi 48 card just fell to its lowest price ever. Here's whether that math still makes sense.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 10 · 7 min
Deals
nvidia is selling the RTX 5090 for $1,999 this week — but only if you're in Dallas
QuakeCon 2026 is, right now, the one place on the planet where Nvidia's flagship still costs what it said on the box.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 7 · 6 min
Deals
AMD had a GPU price hike ready for months. it just waited for Nvidia to go first
AMD finalized this price increase weeks ago and sat on it, waiting to see if Nvidia would take the backlash first. Now that Nvidia's moved, so has AMD.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 6 · 6 min
Hardware
every way to buy a gaming GPU just got more expensive — all at once
AMD, Nvidia, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all raised prices in 2026. it's the same memory shortage breaking every platform.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 5 · 7 min
Hardware
nvidia's third GPU price hike of 2026 just landed — I ran the real $/GB math for local AI
GDDR7 modules and TSMC wafer costs just pushed every RTX 50 card higher this week — but the ugliest number isn't the one everyone's quoting.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 6 min
Hardware
nvidia's flagship GPU just crossed $5,100 — for local AI, that math doesn't work anymore
South Korea is the canary. TSMC wafer costs and $20 memory chips just pushed the RTX 5090 to 2.5x its sticker price — here's the actual buy-or-skip math for running AI models at home.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 8 min
Hardware
nvidia's about to hike GPU prices again — here's the actual buy-or-wait math for local AI
A third price hike in one year is reportedly coming for the RTX 50 series — and if you're buying VRAM for local AI, not frame rates, the calculation isn't the same as 'wait for a sale.'
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 7 min
Hardware
Nvidia board partners just hiked RTX 5070 Ti prices again — up to 59% over MSRP
MSI and Colorful just repriced their RTX 5070 Ti cards in China, and the increase traces straight back to memory costs squeezed by AI server demand.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 3 · 6 min
Hardware
nvidia's whole RTX 50 Super lineup just vanished — a memory chip tripling in price is why
the 5080 Super, 5070 Ti Super and 5070 Super are reportedly built, boxed, and sitting at board partners — Nvidia just won't let anyone sell them yet.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 2 · 6 min
Hardware
AMD brought back the 4GB graphics card everyone agreed was dead — here's why
The $279 RX 9050 looks like a normal budget GPU launch, until you notice AMD quietly brought back a 64-bit, 4GB memory config nobody's shipped since 2022.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 1 · 6 min
Hardware
the RTX 5060 just jumped $75 overnight in China — and that's usually how it starts
A $299 budget GPU got $75 pricier in 72 hours flat. Here's the actual chain of events, and the honest call on buying now versus waiting.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 1 · 7 min